Of all the affronts Christians must endure as they celebrate Christmas – and there are many – the latest is being vomited by the dolts who conflate ICE actions against illegal immigrants with the story of Mary and Joseph.
These functional illiterates cite religious training from their formative years, apparently superficial and lacking context, to wonder aloud if Joseph and Mary would have been put in zip-tie handcuffs and shipped back home had they been traveling to the United States circa 2025.
One such blathering type, the police chief of Minneapolis, ironically a city rife with immigrant Somali frauds of various stripe, felt moved to pontificate on the matter, citing Mary and Joseph being “forced to stay in a barn!”
I will note for this fellow, who seems to be both uniformed and uninformed, that Mary and Joseph were Jewish. That means were they to fast-forward to current day, they might expect to be slaughtered at a music concert in Israel, or at a beach celebrating a religious holiday in Australia. Why? Because they were Jews.
They would be subject to online hate speech, violent treatment from Free Palestine types with towels wrapped on their heads, or generally chastised and loathed for allegedly being the money behind the scenes in almost all countries. Again, because they were Jews.
Now, if Mary and Joseph had concealed their religion, and were just plain illegals, they could head to any of our self-proclaimed sanctuary cities, where they would be put up in first-class hotels (even as homeless veterans and other legal citizens starve and freeze on the streets outside), given cell phones, preloaded debit cards, and offered advice on how to beat the system and stay here, maybe even registered to vote as Democrats.
Mary, of course, would have free healthcare on the taxpayer dime and Jesus would be a U.S. citizen by virtue of being born here.
What the fools fail to note is a basic fact, that being Mary and Joseph were headed to Bethlehem due to a decree by the ruling Romans. They were not sneaking in; the presence had been demanded.
Here’s where the leftist, “pay-your-fair-share-of-taxes-unless-it-affects-me” types should identify. Joseph was required to register for taxation in Bethlehem and Mary went along, but not because she and her unborn son would provide useful deductions or soon qualify for $1,000 in Trump Saving Account seed money.
If Trump had demanded immigrants flood into this country to register to pay taxes, your analogy would be accurate. Otherwise, shut your pie holes.
And what if it had been widely known thousands of years ago that Mary would give birth to a savior and the religion he inspired?
That would have invited persecution worldwide, too, especially in Muslim countries where the only good Christian is a dead one.
If these would-be Biblical scholars want a more apt comparison to our efforts to repulse illegals, they might look into ancient invasions by Assyrians and Babylonians.
Spoiler alert, neither turned out well for Israel.
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